countries like china hand india, turkey, mexico, brazil, indonesia, south africa as well as russia. our third major step therefore has been to deepen engagement with these emerging centers of influence. we and our allies, and indee people everywhere, have a stake in their playing constructive, regional and global roles, because being a 21st century power means having to accep a share of the burden of solving common problems. and of abiding by a set of the rules of the road, so to speak, on everything in intellectual property price to fundamental freedoms. so through expanded bilateral consultation and within the context of regional and global institutions, we do expect these countries to begin to assume greater responsibility. for example, in our most recent strategic and economic dialogue in china, for the first time, development was on the agenda. something that the chinese are doing, in conjunction with their commercial interests, but which we wanted to begin to talk about. so that we could better cooperate and we could perhaps share lessons learned about how best to pursue devel